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1. In the 1960s TV sitcom, "The Flying Nun", which future Academy Award winning actress portrayed the title character, Sister Bertrille?
2. Actress Hayley Mills played a mischievous student at a convent boarding school in part one of this movie franchise. Her costars, Rosalind Russell and Marge Redmond, portrayed the nuns in charge. What was the name of this film?
3. In the 1959 dramatic movie, "The Nun's Story" a physician's assertive daughter leaves her life of wealth and privilege to become a nun. What famous actress, born in Belgium, played the title role, Sister Luke, in the movie?
4. In this sequel to a Christmas Classic, "Going My Way" Bing Crosby again portrays Father O'Malley. Bing partners with co-star, Ingrid Bergman, the convent headmistress, Sister Benedict, to save an inner-city convent school. What is the name of the sequel?
5. In this 1970 movie set in the old west near Mexico, an ill-mannered, coarse young nun, finds a protector in a gunfighter hired to help keep the French from invading Mexico. The movie was "Two Mules for Sister Sara". Which two actors played the leads?
6. This 1990 comedy featured actors, Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane, disguised as nuns to avoid being killed by the crime boss they had worked for. What is the name of this movie?
7. In 1961, the song "Dominique". a number one hit on the United States Billboard charts, was recorded by a Belgian nun, and later performed, on the "Ed Sullivan Show". By what other name was Sister Luc-Gabrielle (Jeanne Paule Deckers) known?
8. A group of nuns find out that their cook accidentally poisoned 52 nuns. To pay for burials, the nuns sell greeting cards and later the survivors put on a bizarre variety show to pay for the last funerals. What off-Broadway musical is this?
9. In this movie Jane Fonda starred as a court-appointed psychiatrist sent to evaluate a very naïve nun who had given birth to a baby that was found strangled in her wastebasket at the convent. What is the name of this 1985 film?
10. Elvis Presley made many movies during his career, but only one in 1969 starring Mary Tyler Moore as a nun. Presley, as a doctor in a low-income clinic, falls for his co-worker, not knowing that she is a nun. Name the movie?
11. This movie, about an ill-fated love affair driving the heroine, Angela Chiaromonte, to enter an Italian convent as a nun, was made three times. What was the sibling sounding name of these movies?
12. This 1992 movie featured Whoopi Goldberg as a nightclub singer who sees a murder and is placed in witness protection as a nun. What movie was this?
13. This movie based on a 1939 novel, explores the way a group of nuns react to the ambiance of a lavish, sensual Himalayan setting in a convent building that was originally designed as a palace bordello. Which egocentric floral title was given to this 1947 movie, starring Deborah Kerr as the Anglican Mother Superior?
14. The 1962 film "Lilies of the Field" tells of an itinerant handyman who is hired by a group of German nuns for a few small projects in the Arizona desert. Which actor played the lead role of the handyman?
15. This 1965 Academy Award-winning Rodgers and Hammerstein musical starts and ends in the Austrian Alps just outside a convent. Name the film about this musical family.
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